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Make your PowerPoints Accessible w/Instructional Technology
Be an Accessible Content Ally with your PowerPoints!
Are your PowerPoint presentations accessible to every student in your course? Instructors routinely upload PowerPoint presentations into their course, but this doesn't mean that every student has...
October 9, 2019 · 2:09 AM
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Make your Word Documents Accessible
Be an Accessible Content Ally with your Word Docs!
Are your Microsoft Word documents accessible to every student in your course? Instructors routinely upload Word docs into their course, but this doesn't mean that every student has the same...
October 9, 2019 · 1:57 AM
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October is Disability Awareness Month
Celebrate the diversity of disability
National Disability Awareness Month is a national campaign held in October that raises awareness about issues for people with disabilities, and celebrates the many and varied contributions of...
October 2, 2019 · 5:58 PM
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DisAbility: The Power of Focusing on Ability
From Advocacy to Academics, Leveraging "I Can"
Diagnosed four years ago, Greta Thunberg has not let autism slow her down in her advocacy for people around the world to do their part in slowing down, or indeed ending, climate change.  She has...
September 30, 2019 · 8:54 PM
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What is it like living with a disability? Veterans share
Explained so even a 5 year-old can understand it
In our post-9/11 experience, we have more people, including more veterans, who have survived traumatic events and are navigating life with a disability.  Here are two examples: Life with an...
September 18, 2019 · 11:08 AM
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Paralyzed at 23 and Moving the World Over 40 Years Later
Marca Bristo Disability Trailblazer Rest in Power
Paralyzed from the chest down in a diving accident at age 23, Marca Bristo became a staunch disability activist early in life, starting Access Living just two years after her accident in 1977....
September 10, 2019 · 9:35 PM
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Can College Friendships and Severe Social Anxiety Work?
Spoiler Alert: Yes!
Going back to school can spark both excitement and stress, as students navigate social circles and workload. For 21-year-old college student Ben Rolnick, who suffers from severe social anxiety,...
August 23, 2019 · 9:39 PM
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UMBC DoIT Instructional Tech Team offers Ally Orientation
Webinar 9/16/19: Using Ally in Blackboard
WEBINAR IS ONLINE, SEPTEMBER 16, NOON TO 1 PM Learn to make your course materials accessible in Blackboard. During the SP2019 semester, Ally was deployed to courses using Ultra. Ally is...
August 8, 2019 · 4:45 PM
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Happy 29th Anniversary Americans with Disabilities Act!
How will you celebrate?
   July 26, 2019 marks the 29th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act that was signed into law in 1990.  The ADA and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) give civil rights...
July 24, 2019 · 5:47 PM
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A WIN for Course Accessibility with Blackboard Ally
How to be a Faculty Ally for Students with Disabilities
DoIT's Instructional Technology division will be holding various Blackboard training sessions to highlight changes to Ultra and the addition of Ally, which supports the accessibility of course...
July 23, 2019 · 7:38 PM
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